In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San ...
Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over ...
Chapurukha M. Kusimba received funding for this research from the Field Museum of Natural History, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright ...
Last fluent speaker on a quest to keep ancient S.African language alive Shakirah Thebus AFP Oct 10, 2025 Updated Oct 11, 2025 RODGER BOSCH Katrina Esau is the last first-language speaker of the ...